| Lje | |
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | [ʎ] |
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Lje, orLle (Љ љ; italics:Љ љ; also calledlye) is a letter of theCyrillic script.
Lje represents apalatal lateral/ʎ/, a sound similar (but not identical) to the palatalizedalveolar lateral approximant /lʲ/, which is in some languages represented by the digraph ⟨ль⟩ and pronounced/lʲ/ like the⟨ll⟩ in "million". Compare Latvian ⟨ļ⟩, Slovak ⟨ľ⟩, Portuguese ⟨lh⟩, Spanish ⟨ll⟩ and Italian ⟨gl⟩.
Lje is aligature of ⟨л⟩ and ⟨ь⟩.[1] It was invented byVuk Stefanović Karadžić for use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph ⟨ль⟩.[1] It corresponds to thedigraph⟨Lj⟩ inGaj's Latin alphabet forSerbo-Croatian.[1]
It is today used inMacedonian, variants ofSerbo-Croatian when written in Cyrillic (Bosnian,Montenegrin andSerbian), andItelmen.
It was also once used in theUdege language, and in theLithuanian Cyrillic alphabet.
Lje is commonly transliterated aslj but it can also be transliterated asľ, orļ.
| Preview | Љ | љ | ||
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| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER LJE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER LJE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1033 | U+0409 | 1113 | U+0459 |
| UTF-8 | 208 137 | D0 89 | 209 153 | D1 99 |
| Numeric character reference | Љ | Љ | љ | љ |
| Named character reference | Љ | љ | ||
| Code page 855 | 145 | 91 | 144 | 90 |
| Windows-1251 | 138 | 8A | 154 | 9A |
| ISO-8859-5 | 169 | A9 | 249 | F9 |
| Macintosh Cyrillic | 188 | BC | 189 | BD |
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